Stuart Russell 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Computer scientist focused on beneficial AI, human control, alignment, governance, and societal-scale risk from advanced systems.
UC Berkeley
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- institutional profileStuart Russell at CHAI
Assessments involving Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell argues fixed-objective AI worsens with capability
In a full interview, Stuart Russell argued that more capable systems pursuing misspecified fixed objectives can produce worse outcomes, including instrumental resistance to shutdown, and proposed uncertainty about human preferences as a different control architecture.
Stuart Russell launches $5.5 million center for human-compatible AI
UC Berkeley launched the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence under Stuart Russell with a $5.5 million grant and a multi-university team to develop provably beneficial AI, formal control guarantees, and systems that learn human values instead of optimizing fixed objectives.